A fascinating follow up, 7 years on from The Everything Store (2014), charting the next chapter of Amazon’s growth - from simply being a e-commerce leader, to shaping the world around us. I’ve written very few notes here as the book reads more like a novel on Jeff + Amazon’s progress, so more like a story.
- Typical comp of $150k, signing bonus, and stock grant.
- Forced managers to have a minimum of 6 direct reports
- Bain; one of the paradoxes of growth is that growth requires complexity, and complexity is the silent killer of growth
- “Step by step, ferociously”